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Mordheim: City of the Damned is the latest from Games Workshop to bring its classic catalog of tabletop and miniature franchises to the digital world. The original Mordheim released in 1999 as a tabletop game. It had a good five-year run allowing...

It was only a few weeks since I was celebrating the new freedom with the Warhammer license and how it could work with a multitude of genres. Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide is a great first-person cooperative game that used the traditional Warhammer...

What's in a name? Mordheim is such a depressing name for a city. Perhaps the reason why the city was full of the damned, dying and diseased was because they derived the name from the Danish word for murder (It also means grim in Hungarian). Why would...

Fans of Warhammer-related products and turn-based game aficionados will enjoy City of the Damned. It isn’t a casual experience and mastering the many systems — as well as the flexible combat — will take dedication and time. It needs a little more technical polish and a much smoother learning curve to be considered for real mass-market appeal, but Mordheim: City of the Damned is a rewarding game for the right player.

I have no experience of the tabletop game on which Mordheim: City of the Damned is based so I can't speak to its authenticity to the IP. As a gamer I can certainly speak to its quality. Mordheim is a tense, exciting tactical game that rewards players...

Wenzel is such a bastard.Slow, stilted, gummy, statistically overwrought; the list goes on. I could decry Mordheim: City of the Damned for being all that and more. And yet, here I am with placatory gesture, finding it one of the more fascinating...

Mordheim is unapologetically hardcore, and if you're not the type to play the X-COM games in Iron Man mode then you might want to give it a miss. It's complex, detailed, finicky and somewhat unforgiving, and while the strategy can be tense and...